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Swimming pool etiquette?

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miaowmiaowhiss · 28/07/2015 16:36

Went swimming today and it was one of the set ups where they have slow/medium/fast lanes, and you pick the lane you swim in based on the people already swimming in them, not your own ideas of speed (eg you might think you're extremely fast, but if the fast line is full of Olympians, you'd pick a different lane). There are signs up specifically telling you to pick your lane in this way.

I was swimming in the fast lane with two other people -we were clearly faster than people in the other lanes, so it was the right place to be. Another man came and got in the pool twenty minutes after I got in, and he was swimming much faster than any of us were going - which obviously means he kept running up the back of other swimmers! Every time I knew he was directly behind me I'd pause at the end and let him overtake me for the next one, but he kept huffing and rolling his eyes. He then started overtaking all three of us during lengths - which is fine in principle, just not if it means the person coming the other way had to stop and wait and the person he was overtaking got nearly kicked in the face each time.

AIBU to think this is really inconsiderate/rude? There was just so much tutting and eye rolling at the audacity we had to be swimming faster than people in other lanes, yet not swimming as fast as this man clearly wanted to. Minor issue in the grand scheme of things but it really annoyed me - as well as actually being quite dangerous RE being kicked in the face/kicking him in the face - and made my swim a lot less enjoyable Angry

Surely if you want to swim faster than everyone else you time it right and wait for everyone else to be on the length back before you start, or something, not just passive aggressively showing your displeasure at other swimmers?

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PurpleDaisies · 31/07/2015 17:48

I got the rage at the pool this afternoon. Where I swim there is one lane and a free swimming area. In the lane were a guy using flippers, an old man walking backwards and a lady doing head up breast stroke so after ten laps of running into someone every half a lap I moved to the free area which was basically empty and started swimming up and down next to the rope.

This was fine until half an hour later when some twit decided he also wanted to swim next to the rope (despite the whole of the free swim area being free) so he cut in front of me half way along the lap so I had to slow down to avoid hitting his arse with my head. I overtook him to take up my place next to the rope where I'd been for ages and then we had a game of swim chicken as we ended up swimming towards each other. We had an actual argument but he did eventually move out and start swimming further along in the free area. Apparently he had decided because "didn't look like a learner" I was supposed to be in the lane so he was entitled to swim exactly where I was. What an idiot!

miaowmiaowhiss · 01/08/2015 00:09

A man...walking backwards. Why, just why.

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